Comber | |
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Ards and North Down Borough Council DEA constituency | |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2014 |
Seats | 5 (2014–) |
Councillors |
Comber is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland. [1] The district elects five members to Ards and North Down Borough Council and contains the wards of Ballygowan, Comber North, Comber South, Comber West and Killinchy. [2] Comber forms part of the Strangford constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
It was created for the 2014 local elections, largely replacing the Ards West DEA, which had existed since 1985.
Election | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | |||||
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2023 | Patricia Morgan (Alliance) | Rachel Ashe (Alliance) | Philip Smith (UUP) | Libby Douglas (DUP) | Trevor Cummings (DUP) | |||||
February 2023 Defection | Stephen Cooper (TUV)/ (Independent) | Robert Gibson (DUP) | ||||||||
January 2023 Co-Option | ||||||||||
2019 | Deborah Girvan (Alliance) | |||||||||
2014 | James Fletcher (UUP) | |||||||||
2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x TUV
2023: 2 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP
2019–2023 Change: Alliance gain from TUV
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
DUP | Libby Douglas [4] | 20.60% | 1,501 | |||||
UUP | Philip Smith* | 19.31% | 1,407 | |||||
DUP | Trevor Cummings* | 17.88% | 1,303 | |||||
Alliance | Patricia Morgan* | 14.84% | 1,081 | 1,087.38 | 1,127.54 | 1,204.6 | 1,219.6 | |
Alliance | Rachel Ashe | 13.99% | 1,019 | 1,032.64 | 1,074.72 | 1,160.8 | 1,215.2 | |
TUV | Sam Patterson | 5.61% | 409 | 595.56 | 651.24 | 677.36 | 922.12 | |
Independent | Stephen Cooper* | 4.42% | 322 | 374.14 | 399.58 | 452.36 | ||
Green (NI) | Cory Quinn | 2.72% | 197 | 207.56 | 219.56 | |||
Independent | John Sloan | 0.58% | 47 | 52.5 | 66.42 | |||
Electorate: 15,112 Valid: 7,286 (48.21%) Spoilt: 95 Quota: 1,215 Turnout: 7,381 (48.84%) |
2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x TUV
2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x TUV
2014-2019 Change: No change
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Alliance | Deborah Girvan* † | 23.23% | 1,516 | ||||||
UUP | Philip Smith | 16.58% | 1,082 | 1,178.3 | |||||
DUP | Trevor Cummings* | 12.91% | 843 | 856.8 | 895.5 | 901.8 | 1,298.8 | ||
DUP | Robert Gibson* | 15.09% | 985 | 992.5 | 1,024.5 | 1,028.7 | 1,201.7 | ||
TUV | Stephen Cooper* ‡ | 10.65% | 695 | 716 | 819.3 | 828 | 887 | 1,065 | |
Green (NI) | Ricky Bamford | 5.70% | 372 | 582.3 | 737.4 | 780.6 | 797.6 | 816.6 | |
DUP | John Montgomery | 9.85% | 643 | 648.7 | 689.5 | 693.1 | |||
UUP | Michael Palmer | 4.87% | 318 | 361.8 | |||||
Independent | John Sloan | 1.12% | 73 | 100 | |||||
Electorate: 14,244 Valid: 6,527 (45.82%) Spoilt: 60 Quota: 1,088 Turnout: 6,587 (46.24%) |
2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x TUV
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
DUP | Robert Gibson* | 17.29% | 1,071 | |||||||
UUP | James Fletcher* | 13.93% | 863 | 878 | 880.61 | 974.67 | 1,037.67 | |||
Alliance | Deborah Girvan* | 13.16% | 815 | 880 | 880.3 | 980.39 | 1,016.48 | 1,121.48 | ||
DUP | Trevor Cummings* | 11.54% | 715 | 724 | 733.39 | 771.63 | 838.93 | 960.93 | 975.93 | |
TUV | Stephen Cooper | 9.32% | 577 | 585 | 585.78 | 639.87 | 750.08 | 908.23 | 920.23 | |
DUP | John Oswald* | 10.33% | 640 | 648 | 663.36 | 676.63 | 742.14 | 867.38 | 879.38 | |
UUP | Philip Smith* | 8.17% | 506 | 526 | 526.42 | 588.48 | 661.6 | |||
UKIP | Isabella Hanna | 6.89% | 427 | 439 | 440.65 | 477.71 | ||||
NI Conservatives | John Andrews | 6.64% | 411 | 425 | 425.93 | |||||
NI21 | Margaret Howson | 2.73% | 169 | |||||||
Electorate: 13,681 Valid: 6,194 (45.27%) Spoilt: 78 Quota: 1,033 Turnout: 6,272 (45.84%) |
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